Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42?

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org>]

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On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:52:42 +0100 "Stuart Herbert"
<stuart.herbert@gmail.com> wrote:
| On 10/11/06, Stephen Bennett <spb@gentoo.org> wrote:
| > We also use space-delimited depend atoms everywhere else. It makes
| > no sense to break that when a comma works equally well.
| 
| I'm sorry, are you telling everyone that it's too difficult for you to
| write an ungreedy regex that also tests for the possibility of a list
| bounded by [ and ] being part of an atom?

We are not talking about us. We have access to a full parser that could
very easily be told to handle spaces, backspaces, tabs and anything
else you'd care to use. It can even go beyond the single lookahead
element that's required here.

No. We're talking about other developers and users who just want to do
a quick script without having to care about all that. You know, not
making design decisions that have no affect on the top 1% but that
screw over significant parts of the remainder just for the sake of
using a space over a comma.

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